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- A. URBAHN. WOVEN FABRIC AND LOOM FOR WEAVING THE SAME.

No. 289,731. Patented Dec. 4, 1883.

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No. 289,731. Paten t edDeo. 4, 1883.

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WOVEN FABRIC AND LooM FOR No. 289,731.

WEAVING THE SAME.

Patented Dec. 4,1883.

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ALwiLL unBAHN, or PATERSON, NEW JERSEY, AssIGNoR or ONE-HALF TO ABRAHAMo. JENNINGS, or BROOKLYN, NEW ORK.

WOVEN FABRICAND LOOM FOR WEAVING THE SAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 289,731, dated December4, 1883.

Application filed December 19, 1882. (Specimens) To aZZ whom it mayconcern:

Be it known that I, ALwILL URBAI-IN, of Paterson, in the county ofPassaic and State of New Jersey, have invented an Improved Woven Fabricand Loom for Veaving the Same, of which the following is a specifica'sectional views, respectively, of part of the harness, and Fig. 6 a faceview of part of the reed; Fig. 7, a vertical cross-section thereof;Figs. 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12, face views of mynew fabric.

This invention consists, first, of a new woven fabric; and, secondly, ofa new construction of loom for weaving such fabric. The fabric isproduced by interweaving shuttle and crossed ground warp threads, toform a foundation fabric, and securing thereto upper ornamental cords,which are held to the body of the fabric by shuttlethreads, which passover the ornamental cords, the ground warp threads being all beneath thesame. The loom is provided with heddle-frames having perforatedneedlelike heddles, through which the ground warp threads, and also thefigurecords, are drawn, in combination with a new reed, which is made ofdoubly-looped pillars, all as hereinafter more fully described. I

In the drawings, the letter A represents the frame of the loom. B is thebeam from which the ground warp threads for the foundation fabric aretaken. These warp-threads are marked a. and b in Fig. 1, and are carriedthrough the heddles or needles of the heddleframes 0 and D. Each ofthese heddle-frames has a series of needle-like heddles, d, as moreclearly shown in Figs. 4 and 5, the said needles or heddles (Zprojecting downward in one of the heddle-frames, O, and upward in theother heddle-frame, D, as shown in Figs. 1 and3. The needles (Z of theheddle-frames have holes near their free ends, and through these holesthe ground warp threads are drawn. The heddle-frame G, which has thedownwardlyframe, E, which is supported on pivoted posts F, as indicatedin Fig. 3, or otherwise arranged, so that said frame E can bemovedlaagal 1y by hand'or bymachinery, and with it the said heddle-frameC, while at the same time the heddle-frame O can be moved vertically intheframe E by the usual treadle and harness connection. The otherheddle-frame, D, which has the upwardly-proj ecting needles, is guidedin a fixed frame, G, and only capable of up-and-down motion; yet thisframe G, if desired, may also be made laterally movable.

The motion to be imparted to these heddleframes 0 D is such, in order toproduce the foundation fabric which I desire, that after the shed isonce open, as shown inFig. 1, and after the shuttleHhascarriedashuttle-thread through this shed, the heddle-frame C will beraised, and after the lower ends of its needles or heddles d are abovethe upper ends of the needles in the heddle-frame D, the heddleframe 0will be moved laterally, so as to carry each one of itsneedles over thevertical plane of one of the projecting needles of the heddleframe D,and then the heddle-frame C will be lowered again, so that in the shed,whenever the shuttle is thrown, the warp-threads a, that are carried bythe heddle-frame D, .will always be above the warpthreads b; but beforereceiving every new shuttle-thread the two adjoining warp-threads a bare made to cross one another by the above-described motion of theheddle-frame 0, thereby producing the effect which is clearly indicatedin Fig. 12, where a b are the crossed ground warp threads and i theshuttle-threads. The ground warp threads a b, after having passedthrough the heddle-frames O D, are passed through the lower pillars, e,of the lower, reed, I, and after having received the shuttlethreads andthe figure-threads the whole fabric is wound upon the beam J, or carriedfrom said beam to a suitable other beam, L. The lower reed, I, isfastened and. moved in the manner customary in existing looms withreference to the moving and connection of the reed and batten, a handlebeing shown for that purpose in Fig. 1 of the drawings. The figure cordsor threads for ornamenting the and carried in suitable strands, f f,through one or more hedd1e-frames,N N, and then between thedownwardly-projecting pillars g of the upper reed,]?. Each of theheddle-frames N has downwardly-projecting needles d, like the needles ofthe heddle-frames Oand D, and the figure-cordsf are drawnthroughtheholes that are near the free ends of these needles. Thenupperi reed,1?, is suspended from the batten-frame by cords, as shown in Fig. 1, orotherwise, in such a manner that it is capable of slight lateral motion,which may be imparted to it by hand.

The pillars of the two reeds I and P are made, as more clearly shown inFigs. 6 and 7, as follows. Those of the lower reed, I, areupwardly-projecting looped wires, resembling hair-pins, andthewarp-threads a I) pass through these closedloops, so that they cannotescape from ,them. The pillars g of the upper reed,

P are looped wires .of exactly the same (than.

acter as those of thelowerreed,excepting that they project downward; butthe figure-threads or ornamenting-cordsf, instead of being passedthrough these pillars, as do the ground warp threads, are passed throughthe spaces .be-

tween the looped pillars, as indicated in Fig. 6. This arrangementenables me, by shifting the upper suspended reed, I, laterally, to

carry any onejof thefigure-threads over the space between any two pairsof ground warp threads, and. then, bylowering the corre-- spondingheddle-frame, N, to bring such fig-' njre thread-into the lower part ofthe shed, wherever it may be desired to have it tied to the groundfabric by the shuttle-thread. By this arrangement I am enabled 'toproduce on the lo0m,without further guidance, the ornamentationinanydesired form, as is indicated by Figs.

8, 9, l0, and 11that is to say, all the figurethreads can be carriedalong simultaneously in zigzag order and tied down by the shuttlethreads1', as in Fig. 9, in which case only one heddle-frame, N, is necessary;or when two such'heddle-frames are employed the effect shown in Figs.'8,10, and 11 can be produced. To this end the reed P is moved laterally,whenever required, and thereupon only one of the heddle-frames N islowered, and its figure-threads are tied to the ground fabric. Then theframe 1? is again moved laterally, and then the next frame N is broughtdown. Thisfwill produce the diamond-like design shown in Fig. 10.

When, between the lateral motions of the reed P, the heddleframes N Nare raised and same extent.

lowered at proper intervals, the figure-threads W111 be placed in.straight rows between zigzag bends, as in Figs. 8 and 11. It' 1sessential in this connection that the heddle-frames the ends of theheddle-frames N N, so that whenever the reed F is moved laterally theheddle-frames N N. will move laterally to the The lower reed, I, has nolateral motion, but is moved backward and forward in the usual manner.of operating reeds or battens. The upper reedloops, 9, need not be openloops, but may be closed plates or arms, as the spaces between them areonly utilized. Such solid arms are therefore equivalents of the upperloop, 9: r

The heddleframes may be connected with treadles C, and in part suspendedfrom upper beams or levers, D, in the customary manner, and as common inordinary loom -harness, such connections being clearly shown in Fig. 1.;

. I claim- 1. As a new article of manufacture, a fabric consisting ofcrossing ground warp threads to b, shuttle-threads i, whichshuttle-threads are held throughout below the warp-thread a andfigure-threads j, which are held by the shuttlethreads only,substantially as described.

2. The reed I, having upwardly-projecting open warp-guiding loops 6,combined with and placed vertically below the upper reed, I, havingdownwardly-projecting figure-thread guiding-loops g, andwith means,substantially as described, for supporting said reed I and moving itbackward and forward in the-loom as a batten, and for supporting saidreed 1 and moving it laterally, all as set forth.

3. The combination of the heddle-frames O D N, having the perforatedneedle-like heddles cl,with the reeds I 1?, having looped pillars eg,and with mechanism for supporting and movin g said heddle-frames andreeds, substantially as described.

4. The combination of the reed P with the arms h h and heddle-framesN N,and with means for supporting and operating the same, substantially asand for the purpose herein shown and described.

ALWVILL URBAHN. Vitnesses: VVILLY G. E. SCHULTZ,-

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